{"id":23682,"date":"2023-10-05T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T17:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=23682"},"modified":"2023-10-05T13:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T17:42:49","slug":"otm-35-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/10\/05\/otm-35-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"OTM #35: Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-23683 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/otm35-300x244.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/otm35-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/otm35-768x625.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/otm35-1024x833.png 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/otm35.png 1854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy Thursday and welcome back to OTM! This past Sunday was the day of my marathon relay, and it was the most fun I&#8217;ve had running in a long time. I was assigned to the third leg, starting at mile 13 (alongside the high-endurance regular marathon runners) and eager to run my eight miles. I felt like Forrest Gump, like I could have kept going forever; I felt faster than the cars I passed on the highway. However, it hit me within the first mile that I likely felt this way because I was surrounded by already-tired marathonners that had run thirteen miles while I&#8217;d only ran one. I weaved past them easily during my eight-mile leg, often turning around to offer thumbs-ups and cheers for those that looked like they were struggling. It was, in my opinion, sweet and comedic, but I also felt a little bad running past all of them. Most shockingly, it made me instinctually want to run a full marathon. I wanted to feel that burn, to feel the satisfaction of crossing the finish line after twenty-six long miles. After finishing, I realized this wasn&#8217;t just a fleeting runner&#8217;s-high induced thought; I think I actually will start training, at least for a half. That really excites me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday and welcome back to OTM! This past Sunday was the day of my marathon relay, and it was the most fun I&#8217;ve had running in a long time. I was assigned to the third leg, starting at mile 13 (alongside the high-endurance regular marathon runners) and eager to run my eight miles. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2250,"featured_media":19276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1388,1381,2040,2039],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23684,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682\/revisions\/23684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}